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Bryan Burnett | 08:37 UK time, Friday, 20 November 2009

ronan.jpgThanks to all for this week's suggestions and I'm sure Pudsey would join me in saying special thanks to everyone who contributed to a pound a play to Children in Need.
I hope you the themes for next week and we are looking forward to seeing the suggestions. I think Tuesday's theme is going to be a lot of fun and if you can pick out a top tune then feel free to send me an mp3 of you in action.

Monday
Tonight it's the Black Magic Woman v's The Brown Eyed Handsome Man. It's Get It On's battle of the sexes. I want to play a 'man' song followed by a 'woman' song alternately throughout the show. This Charming Man or Sweet talking Woman? You decide...

Tuesday
Can you do Robbie Williams on the recorder? Is Richie Blackmore your guitar hero? Or can you tinkle away to the intro to Coldplay? Songs you can play is tonight's theme.
Ask for any song you like - the catch is that you or maybe one of your kids must be able to play it.Would be musicians - this is your night...

Wednesday

It's been announced that Galloway Forest Park is one of the best places in the world to see stars, so on tonight's show we turn our focus skywards. Starman, Catch A Falling Star or Lucky Stars. It's stars singing about stars...

Thursday
Henri Hannah has come up with a cracking theme of songs you love by the artists you don't. Can't bear Bono but love Where The Streets Have No Name? Does Life Is A Rollercoaster mean you've learned to rate Ronan Keating, and did Phil Collins ever release a good song? Get in touch and tell me about the track that stands out for you...

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  • Comment number 1.



    Monday

    Manchild........... Neneh Cherry
    Woman in Chains........ Tears For Fears

    F I D. :{)

  • Comment number 2.

    Bryan, I've earned enough Brownie points to last until 2010 and it's thanks to you. Yas a star!!

    Mon. PLASTIC MAN - Kinks

    NOWHERE MAN - Beatles

    MELANCHOLY MAN - Moody Blues

    THE MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALANCE - Gene Pitney

  • Comment number 3.

    No Matter Who You Vote For The Government Always Gets In - Bonzo Dog Band

    and an apt comment on Get It On

  • Comment number 4.

    Wednesday:

    I'll go for our nearest star. When it becomes an aged star, it will become much bigger.

    Gilmour's "Fat Old Sun" seems to fit the bill.......



    :-I


    DC

  • Comment number 5.

    WEDNESDAY

    'Twinkle Twinkle Little Star' - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  • Comment number 6.

    TUESDAY

    'Twinkle Twinkle Little Star' - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  • Comment number 7.

    I do a graayyyytttt Gilmour on air guitar...

    DC

  • Comment number 8.

    MONDAY

    'The Other Woman' - Nina Simone

    'Cowboy Man' - Lyle Lovett

    'Just Like a Woman' - Joe Cocker

    'The Man Comes Around' - Johnny Cash

    'If I Was With a Woman' - Ian Dury

    'Honky Tonk Night Time Man' - Lynyrd Skynyrd

    'You're Such a Good Looking Woman' - Joe Dolan

  • Comment number 9.

    DC,

    Has your Stylophone fallen overboard?

    >8-D

  • Comment number 10.

    As usual, initial thoughts for the week ahead:

    Monday

    Man, I feel like a woman - Shania Twain

    Songs which fit a strict interpretation of theme:-
    Man's job - Springsteen
    I鈥檓 every woman - Chaka Khan
    Piano man or An innocent man - Billy Joel
    Devil woman - Cliff
    Lucky man - the Verve
    Holiday - Joan as Police Woman
    Simple man - Lynyrd Skynyrd
    Sweet talkin' woman - ELO

    Songs which might work too:-
    The son of Hickory Holler鈥檚 Tramp 鈥 O.C. Smith
    Maid in heaven - Be Bop Deluxe
    Jealous Guy - Roxy Music
    Country Girl - Primal Scream
    The Boy's Are Back in Town - Thin Lizzy
    American Girl 鈥 Tom Petty
    The Most Beautiful Girl in the World 鈥 Prince
    Papa Was a Rolling Stone - The Temptations
    Take your Mama - Scissor Sisters
    Stainsby Girls - Chris Rea
    If I were a boy - Beyonce
    Girls talk - Dave Edmunds

    and finally........
    Jack and Diane - John Mellencamp
    So long St Christopher - Goldheart Assembly
    Saving Grace - Everlast
    The ghost of Tom Joad - Springsteen
    Rhiannon - Fleetwood mac
    Mack the knife - Sinatra
    Janey don't you lose heart - Springsteen

    Tuesday - no talent, so no suggestions

    Wednesday 鈥 Stars

    Silver Star - Four Seasons
    You Don't Have To Be A Star (To Be In My Show) - Marilyn McCoo & Billy Davis Jr
    Shining star - Earth Wind & Fire

    Thursday - 鈥済ood鈥 songs/鈥渂ad鈥 artists

    If you see her say hello - Dylan
    Paranoid - Black Sabbath
    Save me a Saturday night - Neil Diamond (version from 鈥12 SONGS鈥 CD only)
    Sylvia - Focus
    C'mon c'mon - Von Bondies
    Not ready to make nice - Dixie Chicks
    Modern love - Last Town Chorus

    have a good weekend all

    Joe
    Linlithgow

  • Comment number 11.

    Apologies, I forgot:
    Fade into you - Mazzy Star
    Star - Kiki Dee

    Joe
    Linlithgow

  • Comment number 12.

    monday
    Men and Wimmim

    Rubberband Man / Detroit Spinners
    Woman of Mine / Dean Friedman



    Tues Songs you can play

    Hide and Seek / Howard Jones



    Wed
    She's a Star / James
    Star / Nazerath



    Thu
    I ain't a rap fan but I love
    The Crown / Gary Byrd and the GB experience

    I ain't a girlband/boyband fan but am rather partial to
    Bootie Call / All Saints
    Four Minute warning / Mark Owen






    and seconds for Frank's woman in chains and Joe's Marilyn McCoo and Billie Davis jr which I have previously gotten on.

  • Comment number 13.

    Cheers pablo,

    One final star suggestion:Waiting for a star to fall - Boy meets Girl.
    Another 80s classic!

    Joe
    Linlithgow

  • Comment number 14.

    MONDAY:

    You could do a lot worse than search for 'Trouble Is A Woman' by Julie Reeves.

  • Comment number 15.

    I'll third Joe's excellent list, especially his "and finally" bit.

    #9 kin yoo tell wot eet eees yit?

  • Comment number 16.


    I bet it's another Joey.










    How you doin'?

  • Comment number 17.

    oops forgot for monday

    Superman / Five for Fighting


    Saved me a tenner on thursday. Maybe I can get it for free this week.....

  • Comment number 18.

  • Comment number 19.

    Hello

    Monday:

    Mans Job - Springsteen, on Joes list as well really great track

    Nothing Man - Springsteen as good a track as any that would be played, but a bit maudlin

    Watch That Man - Lulu - Bowie b side of her other Bowie cover produced by the MainMan and outsrips the original. Cracker.

    Woman In Winter - Skids, one of my absolute favourites

    Hard Woman - Mick Jagger, great track as well from his She's The Boss album

  • Comment number 20.

    #19

    Speaking of Bowie covers;

    THURSDAY

    'The Man Who Sold the World' - Nirvana

    Why did they bother? Should be sold as a cure for insomnia...

  • Comment number 21.

    Mon. I should include a couple of ladies.

    JUST BECAUSE I'M A WOMAN - Dolly Parton

    LOVE ME LIKE A MAN - Bonnie Raitt

    The live version please from the ROAD TESTED album.

  • Comment number 22.

    Monday
    Woman - John Lennon

    Wednesday
    Is this a sneaky way into having Space as a theme again? Do rockets and moons count? If not and I cant have The Rah Band then I`ll go for

    Shooting Star - Bad Company

  • Comment number 23.


    Never moon a werewolf...

  • Comment number 24.

    Thursday...

    Lady Linda ..............Beach Boys ( i know i know but i really like it )
    Duchess .............................................. Stranglers
    Every Picture tells a Story .................... Rod Stewart

  • Comment number 25.

    Wed...

    All Star ............... Smashmouth

  • Comment number 26.

    Monday:

    "Just like a woman" - Bob Dylan

    "Man of the world" - Fleetwood Mac (what a great way to finish the show)

    I could submit more but this isn't my week for lists

    :-)

    DC

  • Comment number 27.

    Monday

    Woman - Free - They did much more than All Right Now
    Day and Night - Man - The Welsh Wizards

    Tuesday

    The Happy Wanderer - Obernkirchen Choir - I used to play the first four notes on the piano until the neighbours had a whipround to send me to the Conservatoire in Paris (or anywhere)

    Wednesday

    Stardust - Louis Armstrong

    Thursday

    Instant Karma - John Lennon - After the Beatles it was obvious where the talent lay.






  • Comment number 28.

    MONDAY - MAN

    I'm A Man - Spencer Davis Group (Winwood at his best, I think, and very macho.)

    I'm Your Man - Leonard Cohen (this would cheer the ladies up, very amusing, quite unusual for Laughing Larry and helping us blokes relate more easily to our feminine side, I suppose)

    Others are

    Watch That Man - David Bowie -2nd the Lulu version - I'd like to hear it!


    Old Man - Neil Young

    Ramblin' Man - The Allman Brothers band

    MONDAY - WOMAN

    Your Woman - White Town (surely up there as a contender for the world's best one hit wonder?)

    and,

    Black Magic Woman - Fleetwood Mac/ Santana.

    Of course, both categories can be united by Percy Sledge's 'When A Man Loves A Woman'

    regardez - vous

    Henri

    ps # 28 Glen, your choice for Thursday will raise a few eyebrows - I can feel a debate coming on - one of mine will be Yoko Ono.

  • Comment number 29.

    #27 28

    No debate.... i'm firmly in the Macca camp

  • Comment number 30.

    Mon. yet another lady. THIS WOMAN'S WORK - Kate Bush

    Tues. I can play FOG ON THE TYNE _ _ _ _ _ _ _ on the kazoo

    Thurs. Speaking of FOG ON THE TYNE - Wor Gazza is a canny marra but as a singer he's a reet heed-the-baall!!

  • Comment number 31.

    #30 YES - 2nd that - 'This Woman's Work' - Kate Bush - the saddest song of all time? sheer brilliance - it can still reduce me to tears 20 years after it was released.

    I'm also in the Macca camp.

  • Comment number 32.

    #27 #28 #29 It's all subjective but ALL THINGS MUST PASS gives a clue.
    The quiet ones bear watching.

  • Comment number 33.

    #31

    Macca? Camp?

  • Comment number 34.

    #31# #32

    Who led from start to finish - from "One Two Three Four!" to "Someday I'm going to make her mine"?

    Whose dirge asked us to "imagine no possessions"?

    Whose suppressed creativity exploded after emerging from the others' shadows with a triple album almost ruined by a murderer and ended with a high on Cloud Nine?

    Who wasn't even the best drummer in the Beatles?

  • Comment number 35.

    #34

    Hmmm... perhaps.. BUT most of his stuff (especialy ALL of the Ono stuff) is a bit cack.

  • Comment number 36.

    # 34 accepted, largely:

    Lennon had greater originality of mind but a less developed musical talent because his real interests were not to do with ' music' but politics - yet - his was still an awesome musical talent - for pop/blues and slogans - but eclipsed - slightly, and incredibly, by another member of the same band.

    John's originality of mind allowed the holding of two separate ideas to be held in mind at the same time - therefore it's possible to own 3000 fur coats and sing "imagine no possessions" - this was John's great skill. He knew what the public wanted to hear - as opposed to the reality of his own life - and, as opposed to McCartney's developing musical genius - John put his genius into his life rather than his music. He was a great propagandist, Goebells natural successor and way ahead of his time - Blair's hype and spin is amateur by comparison.

    But let's be clear, Ringo is a great drummer - Macca can play drums, but Ringo can drum. Try this - put on 'Love Me Do' and try and follow the drums by banging on the kitchen table - it's mental - he's really really good - that's why George Martin put the boot into Pete Best. Or try banging out the minor drum solo on 'Carry That Weight' - there's a lot more to it than meets th ear.

    That both Lennon - McCartney found themselves as collaborators in the same band is chaos theory writ large - that the support - Harrison, Star, Martin, was as it was, is probably proof that there is something else - bigger - going on.

    As for dark horses, George could play, but he couldn't write memorsble hooks - that's why he got sued for plaigerism -everything else is Phil Spector production techniques.

    I've just been out for the most amazing dinner,at La Parmigiana - laced with gallons of good quality French red. Forgive me.

    regardez vous

    Henri

  • Comment number 37.

    #36

    I salute your oenophiliability - French wine in an Italian restaurant followed by a scholarly treatise on the Fab Four.

    Take a rest - you've earned it.

  • Comment number 38.

    Monday: Marvin Rainwater - 'Whole Lotta Woman'.

  • Comment number 39.

    #37

    Glen - you've had your anti-lennon rant before - perhaps you could leave it this time. I'm no Lennon fan, but demonising him is irrational and as illogical as any random restaurant critique.

  • Comment number 40.

    #37 connoisseur might be too strong a word, but it was bloody good, whatever it was - it certainly wasn't cheap, might have been Margaux: I had Guinea Fowl as a main course - fantastic - it tasted like chicken used to taste before they made it lumps of protein in a curry sauce.

    No offense to the veggies, but it was tremendous.

    For a reason I can't explain, I'm struck by the idea that Julie from Edinburgh might be a veggie?

    night night,

    tregardez - vous

    Henri

  • Comment number 41.

    WED.
    We've Been Had - Ron Collider.
    Dark Star - Grateful Dead (you know who's head to bring me).


  • Comment number 42.

    #37, #40

  • Comment number 43.

    #37 I've read and re-read this post and, for the life of me see where the "rant" and "demonising" is.......

    Maybe I've missed some evil coding. My apologies if I have

    :-)

    DC

  • Comment number 44.

    ooops, missed out the "can't" after the comma

  • Comment number 45.

    #44

    Also missed the word "before".

  • Comment number 46.

    #36

    We call it Pyjamarama.

  • Comment number 47.

    #46

    Across the road fae Clatty Pat's.

  • Comment number 48.

    #47

    It's no bad! Met Colin & Justin in there (and a few places in the same area).

  • Comment number 49.



  • Comment number 50.

    Your dolivery is .

  • Comment number 51.

    #36
    I'm no musician but I am well acquainted with at least three different percussionists who would never have used ringo, great and drummer in the same sentence. In fact two of them wouldn't even use Ringo and drummer in the same sentence.

    There are one or two drummers on this blog. Be interesting to see what they would think.

    i'm firmly in the Billy Preston Camp :-)

  • Comment number 52.

    #36

    I think Andy White played drums on Love Me Do.

    #48

    Were they plumping up their cushions?

  • Comment number 53.

    # 52 - yep, I think you're right - there are two or three takes with different drummers, I think the original single might not be Ringo, but I seem to recall the album and later pressings of the single were Ringo - if the band were prepared to put the boot into Pete Best over it and he was good enough for George Martin I find it hard to believe that we should not accept 'Ringo' and 'drummer' in the same sentence. If he wasn't at least 'very good', how did he get through 8 years at the top? I still think he's great - in the same way that Ginger Baker and Keith Moon are great - there is something about his drumming that holds the band/sound together - idiosycratic,unconventional, perhaps?

    Anyway, I've remebered something for MONDAY:

    - Love Like A Man - Ten Years After -

    the first band I saw live, Usher Hall, 1970 - the support act were a two man accoutic folky thing who ended there set with a number that involved an electic guitar, called 'Ride a White Swan'

    regardez vous

    Henri

    PS - under what theme could we get Pyjamarama played on GIO?

  • Comment number 54.

    #52

    I like Ringo's drumming.

    Learn to play Pyjamarama before Tuesday.

  • Comment number 55.

    #53

    Indeed. Ringo was naturally left handed yet was taught to write with his right hand and developed his own drumming style that married the two together, hence his having to arrange his snare and toms the other way round! Anyway, regardless of what we think of his playing, it is what it is. I especially like his drumming in the more experimental tracks where he is playing with a delay etc and along with a backwards track on a tape (and remember there was no SMPTE synching back then, so quite a high degree of musicality was required to get those tracks together).

    For those peeps who have not yet heard Ringo's new Liverpool 8,

    .

    He's certainly no Simon Philips or Ginger Baker, but he did the business in his day and did it well within it's own context. I think we need to be wary of 're-reading' things as seems to have become habitual these days.

  • Comment number 56.

    #41

    Very disCERNing

  • Comment number 57.

    #53 bedtime theme

  • Comment number 58.

    #40. Vegetarianism: Nah, not me...if we're not supposed to eat animals then wwhy are they made of meat :-)

  • Comment number 59.

    This debate on Ringo and the Beatles is brilliant. Could we have more of the same? Anyone got thoughts on who is the best sax player Bowie or Steve Douglas?

  • Comment number 60.

    #53

    Big enough to play Woodstock. Where are they now?

    #58

    Why does everything taste like chicken?

    #59

    Steve Douglas

  • Comment number 61.

    #51

    Ringo was not a great drummer... but i liked his drumming... i'm not a great drummer but got a lot of praise from fellow drummers, but was criticized by other musicians (usually guitarists) for not being "fancy" enough..Would the Beatles have been a better group with Ginger drumming? maybe aye maybe naw who cares.. but were still having a lively debate about the group 40 years after they split.. they must still mean a lot to us all...

    Frank

  • Comment number 62.

    #60 I was not being serious.....

  • Comment number 63.

    Just back from a jazz lunch in Glasgow's finest.


    The drummer was superb.

  • Comment number 64.

    #61

    They would have needed a different logo for the two bass drums

    #62

    Well it's serious for David Bowie - it's his livelihood.

  • Comment number 65.

    #58 - Good, I'm with you there.I was just a tad tipsy when I came up with the thought that you might be a veggie, so apologies. I don't know many veggies, upon reflection. One of my colleagues is a veggie and seems permanently tired and worried looking.

    Once there was a veggie restaurant on St George's Road (it recently closed) which had a humourless demeanour towards anything 'unveggie'.

    I've never really understood why restaurants thet serve meat always offer a veggie dish and veggie restaurants would never countenance a token meat dish.It's infuriating - at one time they had a suggestion box and they would get annoyed with my suggesting 'lamb cutlets' as though I'd just suggested 'naked leap frog' with the waitress after lunch.

    Things came to head one day when I settled down to enjoy a weak latte and a squint at the paper.I was assailed by the waitress and told to sign the restaurant's petition against the Iraq war. Like most people, I wasn't particularly for the war but I objected to being presumed to hold certain beliefs based simply on where I choose to drink coffee.

    When I expressed the view that my decision to buy a coffee did not entitle the restaurant to canvass my views about the war the waitress was really huffy about it and insisted on leaving the petition on my table, imploring me to send a message to George W Bush.

    So I did - I wrote down that I thought he was an all round good guy, to pay no attention to the vegetarian left and wished him all the best for the future.I didn't mean a word of it, of course.

    Well, that finished it - if the waitress was hufffy before, she was now incandesent and ripped the page out of the petition and tore it up, wasting several other anti-war signatures - but I simply said, 'well you wanted my view - you've got it, I can't help it if it doesn't meet your expectations - I think you're a facist'.

    After this frank exchange of views, I never did go back - pity, they did a great organic latte.

    I don't know why the restauarant closed but I suspect an evangelical, eletist, intolerent attitude towards war-mongering meat-eaters might have had something to do with it.

    Anyway, to come to the point - I don't think Ringo is a veggie, but, if he is, he doesn't bang on about it.

    reagrdez vous

    Henri



  • Comment number 66.

    #65

    Sounds familiar! Is there an echo in here?

  • Comment number 67.

    #53 PS

    Instantly recognisable intros?

    DC

  • Comment number 68.

    #53, #67

    Clothes you only wear when visiting your Mum's? :-)

  • Comment number 69.

    #58 #65 Well I was more bemused than anything at first but now, after the further explanation, I'm a bit hurt ;-)

  • Comment number 70.

    #53

    Artistes who have sold out to the advertising industry

    Monday

    Cajun Woman - Fairport Convention
    Crazy Man Michael - Fairport Convention

  • Comment number 71.

    #53 Songs by singers who look like Terry Wogan

    Mon

    Painter Man - The Creation
    Woman In Love - Tom Petty

  • Comment number 72.

    #69 - Julie - I'm so sorry, that wasn't meant to come over like that at all - I was just goofing about and remembered something that happened in a restaurant a few years ago, quite unrelated. Sincere apologies,please forgive me, I did not intend to imply any correlation between each post.

  • Comment number 73.

    #58
    And why does nobody stick up for these poor vegetables that live breathe and reproduce just like the animals. Just cos they can't moo or baa why should we eat them. They are our friends.







    And they don't taste nearly as good chargrilled to perfection


  • Comment number 74.

    Has a theme been done - numbers?

  • Comment number 75.

    Or dates?

  • Comment number 76.

    or food?

  • Comment number 77.

    Or combine them all - eat dates many times this Christmas! :-)

  • Comment number 78.

    #74 - Norrie - there was a numbers theme. Ii remember because the first suggestion of mine to be played on GIO was 100 days, 100 nights.

    More thoughts for Monday:
    Maneater - hall and oates
    I'm your man - George Michael
    Blinded by the light - Manfered MANn's Earth Band


    Joe
    Linlithgow

  • Comment number 79.

    #74
    Norrie you've got to be at the wind up surely.

    #75
    Dunno if we've had specific dates before but it would be good as they say.

    #76
    They would only play Going Underground Again

  • Comment number 80.

    Oh aye I remember now we have had numbers before.....

  • Comment number 81.

    #60 - Ten Years After are still on the go, according to their website - seem to have a new album out - and - it allows you to enquire about booking the band - but there is no contact for the UK: so I guess, like,many British bands of a certain age, they are bigger abroad than they are here.

    No mention of Alvin Lee, though, so they will either be better or worse, but certainly not the same.

    It's a strange thing - Jack Bruce is massive in Europe,Germany in particular and, wait for it - Swing Out Sister and Julia Fordham are massive in Japan - who would have thought it?


    regardez vous

    Henri

  • Comment number 82.

    Smokie were massive all over Europe with the ill fated Black Lace guy as their lead singer. They once sued Black Lace for trying to rip off one of their songs and sounding like them and then recruited their lead singer when Chris Norman left cos he sounded like him. Black Lace went on to be massive in Butlins.

  • Comment number 83.

    Monday - Battle Of The Sexes!

    The Males Of The Species
    Men In Black - Will Smith
    Male Stripper - Man 2 Man
    Boyfriend - Lisa Stansfield
    I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend - The Ramones
    Sexy Boy - Air
    Male Ego - The Beach Boys

    The Females Of The Species
    Stupid Girl - Garbage
    Female Of The Species - Space
    Planet Of Women - ZZ Top
    Attractive Female Wanted - Rod Stewart
    (The) European Female - The Stranglers
    Save The World, Get The Girl - The King Blues

    Good Question...
    Hey Boy Hey Girl - The Chemical Brothers
    If I Was Your Girlfriend - Prince
    Boy/Girl - U2

  • Comment number 84.

    Continuing JFE's ambiguous thread for Monday:

    * The Kinks - Lola
    (actually would prefer the Madness version from the Dangermen Sessions)
    * Blur - Girls & Boys

  • Comment number 85.

    #58 #65 (etc)

    The only possible response is .

  • Comment number 86.

    #65

    Contrasting experience: We were in Texas the week that GulfWarII started. In a restaurant (in the generally very nice Fredricksburg, in the Hill Country), a woman at the next table noted our accents and after a few minutes' friendly conversation, asked what we thought of the war.

    We expressed our opinions that it was a dumb idea, entered into for the wrong reasons, and she got very angry and demanded to know what the hell we were doing in Texas[1] then.

    [1] Very Texan attitude there; to many Texans, America happens to be those other provinces on the outskirts.

  • Comment number 87.

    More Monday Men and Women:

    * Fleetwood Mac - Black Magic Woman
    * Billy Bragg - Greetings to the New Brunette
    * Ram Jam - Black Betty
    * Dylan - Rainy Day Women #12 and 35

    -v-

    * The Cure - Boys Don't Cry
    * The Pogues - I'm A Man You Don't Meet Every Day
    * Badly Drawn Boy - Something to Talk About (About a Boy)
    * Bowie - All The Young Dudes
    * Nick Drake - River Man
    (please please the version with the lovely strings rich harmony backing on it)
    * Emerson Lake & Palmer - Lucky Man
    * Fairport Convention - Crazy Man Michael
    * The Who - Real Good Looking Boy
    (Oops, it's got a swearie in it)

    (Please please this time the version with the gorgeous strings>

  • Comment number 88.

    Monday:

    I can't urge you enough to dig out 'January Man' from Christy Moores 'Live at Vicar Street' album... sorry to say it but it IS my favorite track of all-time and the one I would rescue from the waves if Kirsty Young ever has me on Desert Island discs... yeah... fat chance...

    Alternatively:
    Man In A Shed: NIck Drake
    The Man In The Iron Mask: Billy Bragg
    Hard Headed Women: Cat Stevens
    The Invisible Man: Darrell Scott
    Man of The World: Fleetwoood Mac
    A Most Peculiar Man: Simon and Garfunkel

  • Comment number 89.

    #88

    Totally backing Mike on January Man - there's also Martin Carthy's very nice unaccompanied version (of which I've put together an arrangement - must dig out the link to it).

  • Comment number 90.

    #73

    They do.
    CALL ANY VEGETABLE from ABSOLUTELY FREE by THE MOTHERS OF INVENTION

    Monday

    DIGITAL GIRL from 2032 by GONG who were excellent at Embra HMV Picture House last night
    vs
    MUFFIN MAN from BONGO FURY by FRANK ZAPPA AND CAPTAIN BEEFHEART

    鈥︹︹.Oh look! - there's a flying teapot (pig)!!!!!!!!!!

    Another on the NEVER list.

  • Comment number 91.

    MONDAY

    ARTIFICIAL RHONDA from THINGFISH by FRANK ZAPPA
    HARRY AS A BOY from THINGFISH by FRANK ZAPPA

    MANdrake from ANGEL'S EGG by GONG
    LADY RACHEL from 大象传媒 SESSIONS 1970-1976 by KEVIN AYERS


    RAINY DAY WOMEN from BLONDE ON BLONDE by BOB DYLAN
    MR COOL from YES, WE HAVE NO MANNAS by KEVIN AYERS





  • Comment number 92.

    Hello Me Hearties.

    For the man/woman coupling tonight, may I suggest a couple of tracks.

    First up I'll go for Gentlemen Take Polaroids by Japan, followed by Foxy Lady by Jimi Hendrix (or The Cure!).

    So thank you ladies and gentlemen. That is my suggestion for tonight's show. Hope you're all feeling hale and hearty.

    LLIM.

  • Comment number 93.

    Forgot 'Man at C+A'- The Specials.

  • Comment number 94.

    Another brilliant track for tonight that I've not heard in a while:
    * Cracker: Eurotrash Girl

  • Comment number 95.

    #92 Lord Luc, was that request for any man/woman coupling tonight or did you have someone in mind?

  • Comment number 96.

    MAN:
    Particle Man - They Might Be Giants
    Man Out Of Time - Elvis Costello

    WOMAN:
    She's No Lady - Lyle Lovett

  • Comment number 97.

    So the theme has changed again... 'Man or woman in the title' is not what it says on the blog. Any chance the themes could stay the same on the night? Otherwise when you take the time to choose tracks it could be a massive waste of time.

  • Comment number 98.

    #90 #91 I take it gregary-peccary and cynthia plastercaster are either related or one and the same?

    Quite obscure (I think) Zappa, Beefheart, Ayres in consecutive posts?

    However deserving, it's hard to imagine them being played:

    Well, I was thrilled and surprised 'This Woman's Work' got played, so there's hope for the above but now we know not to request Joss Stone, Dean Friedman ( or Fat Old Sun by Dave Gilmour). I've a growing suspicion the production team don't like Leonard 'Laghing Larry' Cohen either, because 'I'm Your Man' would have been excellent tonight.

    Did Dean Friedman sing 'The Pina Colada Song' or was he the 'Instant Replay' man - I always get them mixed up. I liked Instant Replay......Thursday?

    By the way, I've been practicing hard on Pyjamarama - (the drum bit near the begining) but maybe there's someone out there who can do it better - so we can get it on tomorrow night?

    regardez vous

    Henri



  • Comment number 99.

    That's a shame Jim. It's annoying whether the theme is narrowed or widened. And another thing...when I first listened to GIO I loved the inclusion of some 'quirky' tracks and it would be a shame if that was vetoed (is the programme not our show after all?). Well...on to Tuesday's request...when I was about 8 or 9 I, like my sisters before me, had piano lessons. I learned to play for a year or two then my piano teacher up
    and died on me (how inconvenient of him). As he was a scary-looking crotchety old man who wore fingerless gloves I thought all piano teachers were the same so never pursued further tuition. That meant I couldn't follow my sisters in playing piano for the creche at church. Even now during prayers I imagine I can hear 'The wise man built his house upon the rock' tinkling (not like Babs's cat) forth from the vestry. The only tune, apart from the first few bars of The Enertainer'and some light classical tunes..that I can play with both hands....badly...is 'DRINK TO ME ONLY WITH THINE EYES'. I thought It'd be impossible to suggest that but I've discovered that it's been recorded by DUKE SPECIAL + NEIL HANNON, also JOHNNY CASH.

  • Comment number 100.

    #88

    I'll tell you who Kirsty will be having...

    Sunday, November 29th 11:15 Repeated on

    Friday, December 4th 09:00 大象传媒 Radio4

    Kirsty will implore Morrissey to go live where we can't hear him...









    Lord, hear our prayer.

    >8-D

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